Seasonal and spatial dynamics of iron availability in the Scotia Sea

• Published in: Marine Chemistry
• Main Authors: Nielsdóttir, Maria C., Bibby, Thomas S., Moore, C. Mark, Hinz, Daria J., Sanders, Richard, Whitehouse, Michael, Korb, Rebecca, Achterberg, Eric P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Chemistry; Southern Ocean; Austral; Scotia Sea; South Orkney Islands; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17950/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304420311001320

The Southern Ocean is the world's largest high nutrient low chlorophyll (HNLC) region. However, satellite images highlight several areas associated with island chains and shallow topographic features which display high phytoplankton biomass. Here we present the first study of seasonal variation...